@Aces170: Got the same router for a friend and at first the even i found the range to be quite pathetic, but then fiddled with a couple of settings to get amazing range from this router.
Set it to n only mode, 20+40 Mhz, and channels to 8 and 12.
with these settings am getting 4-5/5 signal strength 40-50 feet away transfer speed 5-6MBps at this distance
and ~8-10 Mbps few feet from the router
Also I downlod torrents and stuff straight to a 160HDD formatted in NTFS and also use it as a nas drive can read and write to it perfectly fine from a comp connected to the router